trickle vs Feedwright
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
trickle
A podcast player and feed reader with a unique dark cyberpunk interface. It allows users to stream or download episodes, manage playback, and read various feed types including RSS, Atom, and JSON. Public YouTube videos can be watched without ads.
- Podcast search and subscription
- Stream or download episodes
- Customizable playback queue
- Global playback speed control
- Sleep timers and playback skipping
- Read RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds
- Follow YouTube channels and Nostr profiles
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trickle is a podcast player and feed reader with a dark cyberpunk interface. Podcasts • Search the Apple Podcasts catalog and view shows before subscribing • Stream or download episodes • Build and reorder your Up next queue • Resume from saved progress • Use global playback speeds from 1x to 2x • Set sleep timers, bookmarks, intro skip, and outro skip • Search timed transcripts and tap a segment to seek • Read chapters and show notes • Control playback from the Lock Screen • See download storage and remove played or all downloads Feeds • Read RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed • Follow public YouTube channels and playlists • Follow verified posts from Nostr profiles • Read articles in a clean reader view • Save readable article text for offline use • Search, filter, and sort a source or category • Group non-podcast sources into categories • Share a feed or website to trickle from another app Public YouTube videos play without ads when supported, with the official player as a fallback. Use Picture in Picture to keep listening while using other apps or when the screen is locked. Import and export OPML files, or make a local backup of your subscriptions and app data. trickle does not collect your information.
Feedwright
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Feedwright reads feeds and keeps an eye on pages. No account, everything on your device. WHAT FEEDWRIGHT DOES Read feeds RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, Reddit and YouTube channels, none of them requiring a login. Bring your sources from another reader over as an OPML file, from Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire or Feeder. A feed from any page Paste an address and you are done. If the site has no feed, Feedwright builds one from the page itself. New articles arrive unread, like everything else. Keep an eye on a page Pages without articles can be added too: a pricing page, a job listing, a changelog. Feedwright reports when something there changes. Where Apple Intelligence is available, the device decides whether a change means anything, so a new date or a cookie notice is not reported. Reader view Articles open without ads, cookie banners or waiting. You set the typeface, size, line spacing and theme. Read aloud Any article can be read out loud, with Lock Screen controls. Siri and Spotlight "What's new?" gets answered without the app ever opening. WHAT DOES NOT HAPPEN No account, no sign-up. Everything runs on your device. No ads, no recommendations, no ranking by popularity. No data collection, no analytics. FREE AND PLUS Free: 15 sources. A source is a feed or a watched page. Includes every reading feature, OPML import and export. Feedwright Plus: unlimited sources, rules to highlight or mute individual words, Family Sharing for up to six people. The subscription runs until you cancel it and is managed in App Store settings. Questions and bugs: support@kornelius.org Privacy policy: https://kornelius.org/feedwright/datenschutz Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: trickle at every 2 days against Feedwright's every 6 days. trickle also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
trickle ships an update every 2 days, Feedwright every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | trickle | Feedwright |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Parmesh Krishen | Kornelius Brunner |
In-app purchases
trickle
No in-app purchases
Feedwright
No in-app purchases









